Cahill, a bargain £1.5million buy from Championship club Millwall in 2004, gave eight years service to the Blues, making 278 appearances and scoring 68 goals.

With his trademark corner-flag punching celebration routine he became a popular figure with supporters Evertonians, especially given his knack of scoring against Liverpool – he netted five times in Merseyside Derbies.

'Big Dunc' received, who netted 72 times in 273 games over two spells between 1994-98 and 2000-06, received 15% of votes.

With a strike rate of 68 goals in 138 matches for the Blues, Belgian international Lukaku must count himself unfortunate not making the cut.

The man who sparked the debate, Andrei Kanchelskis comes in third with 14% of votes despite just one full season at Goodison Park.

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The Russian international winger totalled 22 goals in 60 outings.

Fourth place with 9% each was shared by current left-back Leighton Baines, who will mark a decade of service next summer, and midfielder Mikel Arteta whose Blues stint lasted for six-and-a-half years between 2005-11.

Leighton Baines celebrates scoring a penalty during the Premier League match between Everton and Stoke City at Goodison Park on August 27, 2016 (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Baines has played 346 games for Everton so far and has scored 33 goals while the Basque schemer turned out 209 times, hitting the net on 34 occasions.

Mikel Arteta celebrates after scoring the winning goal from the penalty spot during the Barclays Premier League match between Everton and Fulham at Goodison Park on April 25, 2010 (Photo by Clint Hughes/Getty Images)

Bottom of the list was Goodison stalwart Dave Watson who polled just 4%.

Watson made 528 appearances and scored 37 goals and as the most recent Everton captain to lift major silverware and the last survivor on the pitch from the Blues 1986/87 title-winning side, ECHO Head of Sport Dave Prentice believes the efforts of 'Waggy' have been unfairly overlooked...

Some footballers are measured by the number of great games they play for their club. Dave Watson should be measured by the number of great seasons he produced.

YouTube footage doesn't really do justice to supremely consistent centre-backs, which is perhaps why the younger, social media using voters didn't back Watson in greater numbers.

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Suffice to say he was voted Everton's Millennium Giant for the 1990s - the decade in which he captained the Blues' last FA Cup winning side - and fully deserved that accolade.

Howard Kendall paid a club record £900,000 to secure his services from Norwich City in 1986 - Canaries boss Ken Brown wailed that it was "like having my right arm cut off" - and he was a defensive colossus in the last Everton team to lift a league title.

That was in 1986/87. The following year he was voted the club's player of the season - and his performance levels rarely dropped in the TWELVE seasons which followed.

In fact his partnership with Richard Gough at the start of the 1999/2000 season - when their combined age was 74! - has been described some Blues fans as the best since the club's title winning heyday.

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He was a captain who led by example, was once described by Steve Bruce as the hardest footballer he'd ever seen, and chipped in with the occasional invaluable goal - like against Liverpool in 1990 and Newcastle in an FA Cup quarter-final.

He was a appointed caretaker manager in the shaky end to the 1996/97 season and guided Everton to safety - and is an eternally underrated, unsung, 24 carat Everton legend.